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EEnE Z IDC Ch. 11: Strange Rules, Strange Feeling

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The sun rose above the forest. Light danced off of what little snow was left in the forest. It all had melted overnight as the rain fell. Droplets of water dripped down from the soaked branches, which were still barren from the preceding winter. One of them dropped down, straight onto Corey's nose.

"Ah-ah-ah..." Corey said, sniffling a little. He tried to raise an arm to stop himself, but then remembered he was a deer, and could do nothing about it. In short, his situation was not a dream as he would have liked to believe; it was very real. "Choo!!"

He sneezed, waking himself up with a bit of grogginess in his eyes. Struggling to his feet, noting that it was far easier than yesterday, Corey staggered around, trying to wake himself up. In so doing, he accidentally kicked the still fast-asleep Sonic into a tree. Sonic woke up, not in much of a better mood than Corey was.

"What the huckleberry, Corey?!" Sonic asked, not even noticing something wrong with his speech. "You kicked me!"

"Don't be a whiny son of a bird," countered Corey sleepily. Neither of them were in their best moods. At this moment, the two of them realized they weren't talking like they usually would. "Wait...son of a...'bird'?"

"'Huckleberry'?" Sonic questioned. "What universe were we sent to where swearing is automatically censored..."

"All of a sudden, Sonic, I'm getting the feeling this universe is prejudiced against those of the Jewish faith..." Corey responded, really thanking his stars that there are no religious references whatsoever in his host universe, at least as far as everyone he knew personally. Both Saiyan and hedgehog shivered at the thought, and then realized there was a subtle fourth wall break.

"Well, what do we do now?" Sonic asked. "Hey, Corey, are you still able to sense energy levels? Like before?"

"Not sure. Didn't have much time to check before sap hit the fan..." Corey replied, bypassing the fact "shit" got replaced with "sap". "Maybe I can try right now. I plan to find Bambi..."

"After that stunt you pulled yesterday...I don't know if that'd be a good idea," Sonic advised. "But the two of us naturally attract trouble anyway, so what's the use in saying that?"

"Maybe I'll be able to channel Ki a little more properly. I wasn't able to do it at all yesterday, so I don't expect any results from this." the Saiyan responded, closing his eyes in focus. He first focused deeply, trying to find his own inner strength. After what seemed like an eternity of tense silence, he was able to find it, a dimly glowing green flame of pure energy.

"Found mine...now, to see if I can re-learn the skill in time..." He attempted to tap into the resources he needed to sense others' Ki. After a few more minutes, he found himself to be able to use his Ki sense. "There..."

"You get it?" the hedgehog asked.

"Yeah, but it's limited. I'd ballpark it at about five to seven miles of area of effect. I'd say maybe ten, but that's pushing it." Corey answered. "Still, better than nothing. Maybe when I get more used to this body, I'll be able to use most of my powers again."

"Alright, well, in that case, I guess we'd better start looking for him again..." said Sonic. The two left their makeshift home in the forest and began wandering around aimlessly. The sun rose higher and higher into the sky as the two wandered around. At about midday, Sonic's stomach started growling.

"Ugh...man...do you know what they do for food around here?" asked Sonic, taking a breather. Corey, on the other hand, stared off into space, focusing on something.

"Odd..." Corey stated, drawing confusion from Sonic.

"Hey! Did you hear what I said?!" Sonic questioned, a bit pissed that Corey hadn't regarded his hunger issue yet.

"...Ronno and Faline's Ki energies are unusually close together." the Saiyan responded. Double-checking how that rolled off his tongue, he frowned. "Why is it that way?"

"Could it be that he convinced her of something?" Sonic asked.

"I'd have to ask her in order to figure that whole thing out." Corey replied.

"Wait, you're actually going to ask her something? Isn't that just going to complicate things?" Sonic answered with another question.

"Complicate things? How would it complicate things, Sonic?" His turn to ask a question at hand, Corey turned his head to face Sonic. "It's a simple question, really. Shouldn't screw things up too much."

"It's...nothing..." Sonic responded, looking slightly away. I can't tell him what I noticed earlier...

"I have a feeling you're not telling me something, Sonic." The Saiyan took a few steps closer to his friend. Look, Sonic, if you noticed something about Faline earlier, and how that could possibly hurt things, now would be a pretty good time because I'm damnably curious to know about this...

"No, just..."

Just then, a painfully loud scream echoed through their ears.

"What was that?" Sonic asked, forgetting all about his hunger. "It sounded like someone passed a kidney stone..."

"Well, whatever it was, it sounded like trouble. However, since those crazy-rear crows failed to appear, I don't think it's anything serious..." Corey replied. It was then, Sonic remembered something.

"Corey, I'm hungry..." Sonic finally was able to state without incident.

"Well...I don't know what real hedgehogs eat. I'm sure you do though. You'd look retarded and suspicious with a chili dog anyway, Sonic." Corey countered almost immediately, almost laughing at the thought of a 'real hedgehog' holding a chili dog.

"Eugh...insects..." Sonic groaned.

"Beggars can't be choosers. At least you get protein. I think I have to eat grass whenever I get hungry. How the heck do you think I feel?" Corey answered to the complaints.

"Well..." Before Sonic could finish, an even louder scream echoed throughout the forest. This time, somehow, Corey knew who it was.

"...Bambi...?! What the huckleberry is he doing that's causing him to scream like that?!" Bypassing any sexual innuendo created by that exclamation, Corey turned to Sonic. "I can sense him now. Not too far from here. If you're going to eat bugs, that's fine, but I have something I need to fix!"

"Wait! Corey!" Sonic called after him, but Corey was long gone... "I don't know which bugs to eat..."
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Corey ran through the forest, following the Ki he could vaguely identify as Bambi's. The screams guided him in the necessary direction as well. He skidded to a halt at the top of the hill, looking down on a stream and an old log. Off to the left on the riverbank, was the fawn with his two little friends. Bambi appeared to be having something pulled out of his ass that was causing him pain.

At this point, a voice called out from his backside. He turned to see Sonic hauling himself along.

"Jeez, thanks for leaving me behind. I had myself a cricket. Worst meal I've ever had in my life!" Sonic shouted. "Hey, what's going on down there?"

"Looks like he had a mishap with a porcupine..." Corey responded, squinting. "Though wherever it is, it's gone now. Well, this is my chance to fix what I've broken before it gets out of hand..." As the Saiyan continued forward, he noticed Faline walking out. Though he couldn't make out the conversation details, Bambi seemed to be hiding the rear-end injury while Thumper was doing...something, Corey was sure. Eventually, Thumper grabbed onto something and pulled it out, causing Bambi to jump with a slightly audible sound.

Then things got bad. Corey sighted Ronno, and growled low under his breath. Sonic, apparently not noticing the latter, had to pose a certain question.

"What is it this time?" Sonic asked.

"Our latest 'friend', that's what." Corey responded, nodding towards Ronno, who by now was squinting at Bambi. Once again, Corey could barely hear the conversation, but from the looks of it things were going to hell in a conveniently organized handbasket. No longer paying mind to his footing, Corey charged forward, and soon tripped over his own feet, and began doing barrel rolls. As pain seared throughout his body, Corey gave a yell. The next thing he heard left him with no doubt as to what the hell Bambi had been doing around here.

"Hey, what are you doing on my log!?" came a grizzled, old-sounding voice. Corey turned, and while the image was very distorted due to the repeated head impact, he definitely saw a porcupine with quills extended glaring at him. Knowing that there was nothing he could do with respect to avoiding the incoming pain, the Saiyan stuck in a deer's body could only think of one thing: brace for impact.
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I must level with you at this point, my readers: we were all too young to remember getting a needle or a thermometer in the one place where you don't want things shoved these days under most circumstances. I don't recall the moment very well, either. But, I'd imagine it hurt like a bitch. Imagine whatever pain I'm sure is felt at that moment, repeated ten to fifteen times over all in varying places on the ass. Picture the idiot that gave you that many shots leaving those needles lodged in the tender muscles.

Do you understand the pain the horrifically disadvantaged hero felt at this point? No? Well, then, let me resume the story so that you can see.
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Corey gave a sharp yell in pain, leaping an unrealistic distance in the air, slightly to his left. Over his yell, though barely, he could hear the most beautiful, radiant sounds of the forest.

Oh, sorry, my mistake. He could only hear the grunts of the porcupine, and the laughter of his least favorite deer in the forest. Then he heard the sound of water filling his ears. He had jumped off towards the animals he had met yesterday, and landed with a splash in the brook. Seeing this, Sonic immediately began to run down towards Corey.

The Saiyan, meanwhile, remained underwater while he assessed the damage he had taken from that little accident. Other than that, he was alright. Except, when he decided to allow himself to float back to the surface, in so doing moving his right hind leg, he felt the points dig into his rear end a little more. He fought back the pain that arose from that action, and finally allowed himself to break the surface. After shaking his head clear of stars and water, Corey took in the scene for the first time.

Ronno was still laughing a ridiculous laugh, making almost no attempt to compose himself. The smaller animals were there, the skunk with both hands over...its mouth. He still didn't know which gender it was. The rabbit was also shocked, but had an underlying look of amazement in his eyes. Corey couldn't blame him. To the inhabitants of this universe, an average deer simply could not roll like that and still be standing. Bambi was concerned, and a sympathetic look was in his eye.

Understanding the scene before him, Corey's eyes finally fell on Faline. Time stopped. Something wasn't right here. Why was he, supposedly still a very powerful force to be reckoned with, nature's bitch? And why in the hell was he so humiliated to have done that in front of her?! He sunk slightly below the water, still deep in dreamland. Just then, Sonic landed on his head, almost driving his nose under the water.

"I hope I'll never have to do this again," said Sonic, looking towards the spot of injury. Corey decided on his course of action. He was going to walk towards the group. Hopefully Sonic would get that injury worked out before things got hairy. Or furry, whichever makes more sense in this situation.
Corey and Sonic's trouble deepens when the former takes it upon himself to stick his nose where it really doesn't belong to try and fix what he cracked.

And ironically, he only broke it worse. Oh, and this is the chapter where I definitely push things to the limit.

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